Posted on 04/13/2024 9:04:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The image and personality of TR is seductive to Conservatives but the reality is a different matter. He was a progressive big Government guy who started a lot of the overreach we are suffering today.
Theodore Roosevelt was a pos and shouldn’t have been included on Mt Rushmore.
No where near as close to undermining the Constitution as Wilson & FDR!
You mean when Trump took a position establishing a balance between federalism and state’s rights?
The same balance our founding fathers wanted?
And Truman and LBJ, Carter, & Zero!
IMHO, it was the 17th Amendment that really destroyed federalism.
This article strains to make a point. For contemporary purposes, Teddy Roosevelt and Trump are most similar in being Republican presidents from New York with flamboyant, dominating personalities. The charge that Teddy Roosevelt was a constitution wrecker is the sort of arcane, history based argument that so often makes conservatives into super nerds out of touch with current political realities.
What?
Some issues are state and some are federal.
Trump is very consistant, i.e. abortion is a state issue, while the illigality of FISA is a federal issue.
Abortion should be a state issue because of the 10 Amendment: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-10/
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
It is an extreme over-reach to pretend that somehow abortion is a civil right which the federal government has to protect. There is no Constitutional nexus for abortion.
Absolutely correct! Everything else pales into insignificance. The 17th enabled all other anti-Constitutional atrocities!
“He was a progressive big Government guy who started a lot of the overreach we are suffering today.”
The worst thing he did was run 3rd party in 1912 which handed the presidency to Wilson. The 20th century began its great unraveling thanks to Wilson, from the income tax, creation of the federal reserve to the intervention in WWI.
This is a fabulous article. Not a fan of Teddy. He ran as the Ross Perot of his day and elected Wilson, easily one of the worst three presidents.
I expected hate about TR.
FDR undermined the Constitution, did it deliberately. TR added federalism, at a time of very rural America to trust it to the world power it would become.
We need neither, we need someone to champion the Constitution and give power back to people, no FedGov.
Trumps the best we got for that.
No. The one who trampled on the constitution more than any other was clearly Lincoln.
Absolutely. Wilson was a catastrophe who did massive damage to our country.
RE: And Truman and LBJ, Carter, & Zero!
We are actually living under the administration of the worst of this lot.
Nixon loved TR also. I never understood it .
But the author is critical of Trump saying correctly that the matter of abortion is for the states. of course it is matter for the states. The constitution says so. The federal government never had authority to regulate abortion. They stole it. And now it’s been returned to the states and the people as the constitution requires. I think the author has a learning disability. He talks about President McKinley being assassinated and then dying!
RE: the one who trampled on the constitution more than any other was clearly Lincoln.
I gather you prefer secession to preserving the United States of America.
Your handle is appropriate
So many bla bla bla words
One short sentence. Where has Trump ever tried to undermine the Constitution?
If he mean the dem’s interpretation and bastardization of the constitution then that’s different but that’s not the constitution
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